Cynthia McFadden

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Cynthia McFadden
Primetime co-anchor
(2004–2014)
ABC News correspondent (1994–2014)
NBC News
senior legal & investigative correspondent (2014–present)
Spouse
John Michael Davies
​
​
(m. 1989; div. 1996)​
Partner
James F. Hoge, Jr.
(1997-1998)
Children1 with Hoge

Cynthia McFadden (born May 27, 1956) is an American television journalist who is currently the senior legal and investigative correspondent for

Primetime. She was with ABC News from 1994 to 2014 and joined NBC News in March 2014.[2]

Biography

Education

Born in

summa cum laude from Bowdoin College in Brunswick, Maine, in 1978.[3][4] Afterward, she received her Juris Doctor degree from Columbia Law School in New York City
in 1984.

Career

Early career and time as ABC News correspondent

From 1984 to 1991, McFadden was the executive producer of

O. J. Simpson trial
.

Promotion to anchor

McFadden became an anchor of Primetime in 2004 and, having previously substituted for

Secretary of State Hillary Clinton

Move from ABC to NBC

On March 29, 2014, after two decades with ABC News, with the last nine years as a Nightline anchor, McFadden left and joined NBC News.[2] She serves as the senior legal and investigative correspondent, contributing to NBC's investigative unit across all NBC News platforms.

Other work

McFadden is a contributor for wowOwow.com, a web site launched in 2008 for women to discuss culture, politics and gossip. She has additionally hosted or co-hosted a number of documentaries and specials on ABC.

She is co-chair of the board of

IWMF (International Women's Media Foundation).[7]

Personal life

McFadden married Michael John Davies, editor and publisher of the

James Hoge, Spencer Graham McFadden Hoge, who was born in 1998 and named after the actor Spencer Tracy.[8]

She is the executor of the estate of longtime friend actress Katharine Hepburn.

She has Crohn's disease and has done public service announcements to raise awareness of the condition.[9][10]

McFadden practices Transcendental Meditation[11] and has supported the work of the David Lynch Foundation.[12]

In October 2020,

Covid 19 virus. Spencer, having grown up in New York City, had not learned to drive, until he moved to California. McFadden encouraged him to earn a driver's license
by promising him a new car.

Awards

References

  1. ^ Don Kaplan (2014-02-27). "McFadden to NBC, Chang to anchor 'Nightliine'". New York Daily News. Archived from the original on 2019-12-08.
  2. ^ a b c d e Steinberg, Brian (March 27, 2014). "NBC News Lures 'Nightline' Anchor Cynthia McFadden From ABC". Variety. Retrieved December 15, 2016.
  3. ^ a b "Ms. McFadden Has a Wedding". The New York Times. September 10, 1989. p. 67. Archived from the original on 2012-07-03. Retrieved April 30, 2010. Mrs. Davies, who graduated summa cum laude from Bowdoin College where she was elected to Phi Beta Kappa and who received a law degree from Columbia University, is the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Warren Graham McFadden of Cundy's Harbor, Me.
  4. ^ a b Spencer McFadden Hoge; Cynthia McFadden (2020-10-25). "This Family Road Trip Might Be the Greatest Driving Lesson Ever".
    Town and Country magazine. Archived
    from the original on 2020-10-30. Retrieved 2020-11-06. Cynthia McFadden and her son Spencer took a 7,254-mile road trip, teaching him to drive and so much more.
  5. ^ "Cynthia McFadden's Biography". ABC News. 19 June 2013. Archived from the original on 2011-07-14.
  6. ^ "ABC denies Kimmel slot shift". The Live Feed: THR. Retrieved 2009-09-21.
  7. ^ "Board Of Directors". IWMF. Archived from the original on 1 June 2015. Retrieved 17 May 2015.
  8. ^ Lloyd Grove (2018-02-18). "A Farewell to Liz Smith, the Queen of Gossip… With Some Pretty Good Gossip".
    Daily Beast. Archived
    from the original on 2018-12-07. Retrieved 2020-11-05. Diller was followed to the stage by Smith's 64-year-old niece, Karen Smith Williamson, who recalled how her earthy aunt livened up occasions in a family of Southern Baptist teetotalers; and 19-year-old Spencer Hoge, the son of McFadden and newspaper editor and publisher Jim Hoge...
  9. ^ "CCFA.org: Take Steps PSAs". Archived from the original on 2008-04-22. Retrieved 2008-05-06. reference does not substantiate content
  10. ^ "Crohn's – Colitis – IBD – Crohn's & Colitis Foundation". www.ccfa.org. reference does not substantiate content
  11. ^ Tran, Bibi. "'Women in the Media Who Meditate' Luncheon Raises Funds to Teach TM to At-Risk Women and Children". David Lynch Foundation. Archived from the original on 30 May 2015. Retrieved 17 May 2015. TM has helped me be more effective in the things I most care about. I don't know how it works but I know it does: there is a combination of pleasure from both energy and calm.
  12. ^ "Women in the Media Who Meditate". David Lynch Foundation. Archived from the original on 18 May 2015. Retrieved 17 May 2015. Eight nationally renowned women leaders in the media who meditate gathered on April 16, 2015 in New York City to raise awareness about the benefits of the evidence-based Transcendental Meditation technique for overcoming stress, improving performance, and enhancing work-life balance in their lives.
  13. Peabody Awards
    . Retrieved December 15, 2016.
  14. ^ "NBC's Cynthia McFadden wins Emmy for Hard News Feature Story". Today (American TV program). 2020-09-22. Archived from the original on 2020-09-22. Retrieved 2020-11-06. On Monday night, NBC senior investigative correspondent Cynthia McFadden won an Emmy for Hard News Feature Story for her story on the child miners of Madagascar, which aired on TODAY.
  15. ^ Trounson, Rebecca (November 13, 2020). "Anderson School of Management announces 2020 Loeb Award winners in business journalism" (Press release). UCLA Anderson School of Management. Retrieved November 13, 2020.

External links

Media offices
Preceded by
anchor
November 28, 2005 – March 2014
With Martin Bashir and Terry Moran
 Succeeded by
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